Genetic variation affecting heart rate in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetical Research

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Robbins, J ^b   Aggarwal, R ^b   Nichols, R ^b   Gibson, Greg ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART RATE; MALE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PUPA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0345466648     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399003924     Document Type: Article

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